Scripts

Technical Article

Identify Primary Key Violation Prior to Insert (Updated)

This script allows for testing if rows will cause a primary key violations prior to inserting the data.  Offending rows are stored in a table so they can be used in subsequent queries or used to debug bad data issues. This updated version adds a timestamp to the duplicates table so that identifying when the […]

(2)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-10-28

1,835 reads

Technical Article

SQL Server Error Log Manager

Provides a method to regularly recycle the sql server error logs based on a given file size.  If the current log file is larger than that size, then the current log is closed and a new log created.This proc takes one parameter, @MaxFileSize, which is the target file size.  This parameter defaults to 10 MB. […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-10-27

924 reads

Technical Article

User tables documentation - HTML format

It creates documentation for all user tables in a specific database. A server name/ database name was added on the top of the HTML file also a column datatype field was added to the HTML file. Now the @strHTML can have 8000 chars, before only 4000 - still for tables with a lot of columns […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-10-27

660 reads

Technical Article

compare table counts in two databases

Sound like old hat ... but this procedure accepts the two database names as input parameters; therefore, it must dynamically generate the SQL and use Exec(@command) to execute it.   It also reports on tables that exist in one database but not the other ...  Finally, it uses count(*) to provide more accuracy than using sysindex […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-10-24

303 reads

Technical Article

sp_toptables

Are you managing big databases with a lot of tables like SAP as I'm?Do you use sp_spaceused, as I'm?Do you want to know your n biggest tables as I'm?Then don't search any longer.I'm using this script every day for may maintenance jobs.I generates, like sp_spaceused, out of sysindexes the n biggest tables without any cursor, […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-10-20

306 reads

Technical Article

XML Encode UDF

I routinely need to retrieve and package query result sets in an XML package.  The built in functions supported by SQL Server 2000 are effective, but are often more of a pain than a help.  This routine can be used in a simple select statement to XML encode the contents of a column during the […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-10-14

245 reads

Blogs

What is ALM in Fabric?

By

As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...

The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common

By

2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...

Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI

By

it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

A Quick Restore

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item A Quick Restore

Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)

By tedo

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Guarding Against SQL Injection at...

Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page

By JSB_89

I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

A Quick Restore

While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:

USE DNRTest

BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak'
GO
/*
Bunch of stuff tested here
*/RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACE
What happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance.

See possible answers